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After bringing the British crew aboard as prisoners, the Americans concluded Guerriere was too far gone to salvage and burned her.
“Old Ironsides,” the U.S. Navy’s 222-year-old frigate USS Constitution, has been through it all and lived to tell the tale, two centuries after her original life expectancy lapsed.
Constructed of sturdy live oak, pine, and (at one point) copper sheathing procured from Paul Revere, she was a first step in withstanding attacks by enemy fleets that had both larger and more numerous ships than the six frigates that were authorized by Congress in the Naval Act of 1794.
At 222 Years Old The USS Constitution is America's Oldest Warship Still Afloat